For Immediate Release:
January 30, 2007

Contact:
Lindsay Rajt at 757-622-7382

Louisville, Ky. -- A PETA member dressed as a blood-soaked Col. Sanders will be hung upside-down from scaffolding outside a KFC restaurant and have his throat "cut" by a giant "chicken" under a banner that reads, "KFC Cuts Live Animals’ Throats." Other PETA members will hand out leaflets to passersby. The public "slaughter" is a protest against the suffering endured by the more than 850 million chickens raised and killed for KFC each year.

Date:   Wednesday, January 31
Time:   12 noon
Place:   KFC, 1004 Bardstown Rd. 

Why is PETA’s "chicken" exacting revenge on the Colonel? Chickens are excluded from the Humane Slaughter Act, the only federal law that protects animals killed for food. Chickens raised and killed for KFC are drugged and bred to grow so large that many become crippled under their own weight. Many also have their throats slit while they are still conscious and are scalded to death in defeathering tanks. KFC ignored the recommendations of members of its own animal welfare advisory panel, including five members who have since resigned in frustration.